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Publications by Author: Hsiao, William

2019
Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity(Anniversary Edition)
Robert, Marc J., William Hsiao, Peter Berman, and Michael R. Reich. 2019. Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity(Anniversary Edition). Publisher's Version Abstract
This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance—useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike—and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to design effective government interventions in five areas—financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behavior—to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world.
2008
Reich, Michael R, Keizo Takemi, Marc J Roberts, and William Hsiao. 2008. “Global Action on Health Systems: A Proposal for the Toyako G8 Summit.” The Lancet. The Lancet. Publisher's Version Abstract

The G8 summit in Toyako offers Japan, as the host government, a special opportunity to influence collective action on global health. At the last G8 summit held in Japan, the Japanese government launched an effort to address critical infectious diseases, from which a series of disease-specific programmes emerged. This year’s summit provides another chance to catalyse global action on health, this time with a focus on health systems.

Global efforts to improve health conditions in poor countries have embraced two different strategies in recent decades, one focusing on health systems, the other on specific diseases. The interactions of these two strategies have shaped where we stand today.

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